“This really is democracy’s last bullet,” said CSU leader Markus Söder. While he was referring to the threat from the far ...

Last January Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were ahead in the German opinion polls by fifteen points. She was stepping down after sixteen years as chancellor (prime minister), but she ...

CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann defended Merz, telling the Rheinische Post newspaper that "we value Angela Merkel and know her assessment of migration policy". But he added that "those who ...

Friedrich Merz is set to become Germany's next chancellor. Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic ...

The key positions in the future German government will be held by politicians who are generally favorable to Kyiv.

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Germany's presumptive next leader Friedrich Merz has an "absolute will to power," former chancellor Angela Merkel said on ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her coalition government will ... behind Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Greens, in the European elections. She had been criticized by the ...

The party had already surged to second place in the February Bundestag election, a rise fueled by former Chancellor Angela ...

In the two months since the election, Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has lost four points while the AfD has been rising in opinion polls: Both now stand at 24%. Compared with former Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a picture of her and Friedrich Merz as she speaks during her appearance as a guest on Deutschlandfunk's live radio show "Studio 9" at the Humboldt Forum.